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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name referred to Stalin's campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery?

2. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in what year?

3. How many people were aboard Thomas Cook's first train tour to Scotland?

4. Established by Boorstin, what is the second way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?

5. Pseudo-events tend to do what to the human experience, according to Boorstin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What subject does Boorstin address in Chapter 1 - Section V? How have pseudo-events distorted image?

2. Who was Thomas Cook? What industry did he expand?

3. How do the personalities of celebrities evolve, according to Boorstin?

4. How does Boorstin compare travel of the past with the present, in Chapter 3 - Section I?

5. What is the effect of the extravagant expectations held by Americans, according to Boorstin?

6. Who was Karl Baedeker? What did he pioneer?

7. What does Boorstin assert of travelers' dissociation since the advent of tourism?

8. How does Boorstin describe the power of celebrity to obscure and destroy the heroic?

9. What argument is made regarding the objects on display in museums in Chapter 3 - Section IV?

10. What did the advent of tourism do for the American traveler, according to Boorstin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contract the definitions of Boorstin for "hero" and "celebrity." How do heroes and celebrities differ in their creation and their demise?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss museums as a tourist destination. What does Boorstin assert of the "authenticity" of museums?

Essay Topic 3

How does Boorstin define the term "celebrity"? What impact did this definition have on scholars and the American public? How and to whom does this definition apply today?

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